THE late, renowned British sports columnist Ian Wooldridge once told me he was perplexed by how a group of separate, miniscule former British colonies scattered across hundreds of miles of water, from Guyana on the South American mainland to Jamaica in the northern Caribbean, could produce such a profusion of great players to unite into such powerful teams.
He described it as “one of the wonders of the sporting world”. It was a widely shared sentiment.
That was many years ago when the legacy of George Headley,
